[spambayes-dev] trimming email addresses

[Kenny Pitt]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> It occurred to me yesterday that it might be worthwhile trimming email
> addresses which contain "+" signs.  Most MTAs understand this notation and
> deliver such messages to the email address on the left of the "+".  For
> example, Mailman 2.1 uses this.  The email address in the Sender field of my
> spambayes mail is
> 
>     spambayes-bounces+skip=pobox.com at python.org
> 
> A message to that address would go to spambayes-bounces at python.org where the
> "skip=python.org" part is extracted and treated as a parameter by the
> recipient (usually a program).
> 
> It seems to me that the Spambayes tokenizer should only consider the
> "spambayes-bounces" part of the address.  I don't think this will improve
> the tokenizer in the general case, but it does seem like the correct way to
> handle such addresses.
> 
> [...]

If you do implement such an option, I would recommend not dropping the 
parameter info entirely.  Just add it as a separate psuedo-token such as:

     sender:addr:+skip=pobox.com

-- 
Kenny Pitt